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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:56:39 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Road Trip 2018: Organ Pipe National Monument by barbara0786https://southeastmain.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/road-trip-2018-organ-pipe-national-monument/#comment-13270
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:56:39 +0000http://southeastmain.wordpress.com/?p=8459#comment-13270Be very careful there. Have known Park Rangers who say it is very dangerous and told us not tp camp there. A lot of illegals and drug traffickers. Barbara

]]>Comment on The Blue Orb by junehttps://southeastmain.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/the-blue-orb/#comment-13258
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:07:36 +0000http://southeastmain.wordpress.com/?p=8454#comment-13258thanks, Kit. I think it is a mirror, but only after doing some research on the High Desert Test Sites. From our viewpoint it was an astonishing orb, something out of a sci fi movie, right there among the rocks. I rather like the sci fi-ness of the scene 🙂

I do not like being contained in a narrow space, a narrow bed. Although most nights i keep to less than half of my queen size bed, other nights find me sprawled diagonally or even sometimes fully across the space. I have to be careful about how closely things on the nightstand are arranged. I think I have the same flinging abilities as I arise as you.

Everything close at hand, and multiples thereof because I fear being without what I need when I need it. Take more than one book because the chosen one might be one I decide I’m not interested in reading and then what would I do without a backup and some magazines too? Does this speak more to my insecurities about being able to entertain myself on the fly or unwillingness to be open to adapting a thing to many uses instead of insisting on the need for use-specific items or I simply can’t do such and such (my array of media specific or subject specific sketchbooks come to mind)? I know at one point in my life, all these things I toted along on trips was not because I was uncomfortable just sitting, doing nothing, staring into space, being in the moment (all things I’ve always been good at and have gotten even better at with age), but more because I saw travel as an opportunity to catch up on my reading or hand work, a gift of time in a life that was scheduled to the hilt otherwise. No time to waste!

What to do when it gets dark without the luxury of electricity, something that occasional power outages have had me grappling with. So many things we don’t think about how challenging they are to do with reduced lighting coming from a small portable source. The dead quiet now that the refrigerator and heating/cooling systems are shut off. The resistance to just going to bed because my sleep cycle doesn’t begin til after midnight – how to fill those hours? Reading by candle or lamp light strains the eyes eventually, ditto with any hand work. With a companion one can at least start weighty conversations, tell jokes, even sing. Alone, one might want to take a walk just for something to do, but it is dark out there too and what lurks in the shadows? A small understanding of one part of pioneering life.

]]>Comment on The Blue Orb by Kit Szantohttps://southeastmain.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/the-blue-orb/#comment-13252
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:30:51 +0000http://southeastmain.wordpress.com/?p=8454#comment-13252Loved this – and whether or not it is a mirror it is still wonderful to see (maybe even more amazing if you discover it is a mirror. I will never know – but still love seeing what you have sent.)